About

Vaibhav Khode is a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in hiring top-notch talent for leadership, technical, and product roles in the Fintech, SaaS, and digital marketing industries. With over 4.95 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of building and scaling hyper-growth Fintech unicorn startups through talent acquisition. Currently, he is working as a Talent Acquisition Partner at Drip Capital, where he is responsible for hiring for technology, product, risk analytics, and C-level roles. Vaibhav's Gallup strengths include being futuristic, strategic, achiever, focused, and a learner. He specializes in technology hiring, product hiring, vendor management, finance recruiting, accounting recruiting, non-tech recruiting, corporate recruiting, strategic sourcing, talent pipeline, talent mapping, stakeholder management, competitive intelligence, data-driven approach, effective communication, diversity, inclusion, and employee retention. He has a rich toolkit of sourcing/prospecting tools, technical assessment tools, psychometric assessment tools, candidate management tools, organization/productivity tools, communication tools, scheduling tools, and job boards. Some of the tools he is proficient in include LinkedIn Recruiter, Google X-Ray, Naukri.com, Hirist.com, Codility, CodeSignal, Mercer Mettl, Greenhouse ATS, Google Suite, Gmail, Zoom, Google Calendar, Calendly, Indeed, Glassdoor, and Monster. In his current role, Vaibhav has successfully hired roles such as software engineer/senior software engineer, lead front-end developer, lead backend developer, technical program manager, product analyst, product manager, global head finance, global head risk analytics, head-CEO's office, manager finance, credit risk analytics, and underwriting. He has designed a post-offer candidate engagement plan for enhancing the conversion ratio from offer to joining, which has significantly reduced the offer-drop-out rate. He has also saved external recruitment (vendor cost) by 70-80% in the last year and reduced hiring time by 10 days against 45 days SLA for technology and leadership roles. Vaibhav holds an MBA in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a Bachelor's degree in Management from Sinhgad Institute of Management. He is proficient in P2P, backend, software engineer, frontend, test, product manager, Javascript, search, ReactJS, Ruby, Golang, and React